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Extra thick comb

When I was removing the queen cages from my recently installed packages I noticed something troubling. I only waited two and a half days but already one of the frames had comb almost to the bottom of one of the medium frames. This would have been great but it looked like they had started two lobes of comb on each side of the popsicle stick guide on one the frames. Is this something I should risk disrupting them again before next weekend over? The two lobes looked to have already been merged together in the middle of the frame so I think that the frame will just be extra wide. I am sorry that I didn't take a picture but if necessary I can try to describe it better.

Re: Extra thick comb

So you are saying the bees are starting the comb on both sides of the popsicle stick and at the bottom of it they have joined it as a single comb and it is still running the length of the frame as it should? It doesn't sound like anything to worry about at all.

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The main thing I would like to know is how dangerous it is to their development to mess with them so soon after I fiddled with them (i.e. yesterday). Correcting bad comb just to have them abscond seems like catching the house on fire while trying to move a couch.

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Keep in mind that is by no means to scale and is just suppose to give an idea of what I am talking about. If I had to guess the comb would stick out an additional half a centimeter on each side - but it would just be a guess.

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I would be inclined to fix it sooner rather than later. If the next comb goes off at a tangent and crosses several frames it will be a much more difficult problem to fix. My first hive was a TBH, and I saw the same thing a few times.

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Thanks Mike and everyone for your patience. I think I am just going to do a "wait and see" one on this one. If when I inspect it this weekend it has caused them to draw comb on the adjacent frames incorrectly I will fix all three frames before it becomes too problematic. I have bugged the girls enough since I have installed them.